SPORTING.

Otaki Mail, 4 January 1922, Page 4

SPORTING.

. While being exercised on the Palnierstoii course last week Siberian, owned and trained by Miss Grace Barrett met with an accident, and had to be destroyed. The crowd on Cup day at Auckland was estimated at over 55,000, as compared with over 40,000 last year. C. Reed, rider of Uncle Alex in the Great Northern Foal Stakes, was before the stewards on Monday at Auckland, for cutting across and interfering with Farceur. The rider of the latter was severely cautioned for not giving his evidence frankly. A. Oliver, the rider of Solfanello in the Railway Handicap at Auckland, was fined £2O for deliberately changing his place at the barrier. Australia's champion three-year-old filly Furious has the bar sinister in her lineage, and is not eligible for admission to the English Stud Book. Through her dam she traces buck to a grey mare by Zohrab and the next dam was a brown of unknown pedigree. This last is a serious stumbling block, and will always tell against the flying filly when she is relegated to the stud. Explorer and Raceful, winners at Auckland on Boxing Day, were both sold this year by Mr W. B. Kemball. David (Baverstock —Linotype), who was .sold for "40 guineas in 1919, has been sold to Mr Norman Falkiner for a sum in the region Of £4OOQ. Australian writers acclaim David a great horse, and consider that he has been bought with the idea of winning all the distance weight-for-age races in Australia in the Autumn. There is g.-ave doubt that Eurythmic will stand a preparation, but should he stand up to his work, it looks a certainty that David will have to play second fiddle. Mr Falkiner has probably been well advised, and is gambling on Eurythmic's unsoundness. It does not always pay apparently to give- a truthful answer to a question (states the Auckland Star). A witness at the Police Court stated that he was passing an hotel when a man came out of the door and asked, '' What won the Railway Handicap?" He replied, "Silver Link." "You're a liar," said the man, and .smote him in the eye, knocking him down.